Informationen zum Autor James Harkin is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI , and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish . He has authored 13 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. He is a long-suffering fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Anna Ptaszynski is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI , and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish . She has contributed to 11 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. She is a long-suffering fan of Charlton Athletic. Klappentext Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves and No Such Thing As a Fish podcast hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of soccer chants, comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests and professional pillow-fighting. Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of "bicycle face," or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers, and plenty more besides. Vorwort Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls? Zusammenfassung The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.

Vorwort
Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls?

Autorentext
James Harkin is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI, and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. He has authored 13 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. He is a long-suffering fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Anna Ptaszynski is a senior researcher, writer and script-editor for the BBC's QI, and one-fourth of the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. She has contributed to 11 books with the QI Elves and toured sell-out shows across the world, from the London Palladium to the Sydney Opera House. She is a long-suffering fan of Charlton Athletic.

Klappentext
Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves and No Such Thing As a Fish podcast hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.

From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each chapter of Everything to Play For is brimming with surprising facts and intriguing stories, including the psychology of soccer chants, comically large cricket bats, pole-vaulting priests and professional pillow-fighting. Even if you've never asked yourself what David Attenborough has to do with yellow tennis balls, why Victorian doctors feared the outbreak of "bicycle face," or what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed, this book will give you the astonishing answers, and plenty more besides.

Zusammenfassung
The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.